1/2
Y'all still don't get it. The economy IS a social issue. The right-wing is willing to suffer and/or die to maintain "Western" (white) supremacy/U.S. hegemony, which is grounded in corporate/colonial expansionism. That is the center of their ideology/social conditioning.
Social issues are really important and worth fighting over. But maybe the left-wing and right-wing should consider uniting on economic issues against corporate rule. We agree a lot more than people realize on those issues. Then we can go back to kicking each other's ass.
"South Vietnam requested America for help."
Who created South Vietnam, Daniel?
Tell me. Take your time. Go look it up. I'll wait.
South Vietnam was not a country.
It was a administrative line drawn at the 17th parallel by the 1954 Geneva Accords as a temporary demarcation pending a national reunification election in 1956.
It was never intended to be a permanent border.
It was never intended to be two countries.
Every party at Geneva understood this. The documents say this explicitly.
The United States prevented that election from happening.
Why? Eisenhower wrote it himself, in his own memoir: American intelligence estimated Hồ Chí Minh would win roughly 80 percent of the vote.
So Washington cancelled the election, installed Ngô Đình Diệm, a Catholic mandarin who had spent years living in New Jersey, as the leader of a "country" that had been invented specifically to prevent the Vietnamese people from choosing their own government.
Then that invented country, run by an American-installed leader, "requested American help."
Do you understand what you just said? You used a puppet requesting help from its puppeteer as your moral justification.
That's not sovereignty. That's a ventriloquist act. And you're applauding the dummy for having opinions.
And Hồ Chí Minh "started this war with Chinese communist help"?
Hồ Chí Minh was writing to Woodrow Wilson in 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, appealing for Vietnamese independence based on Wilson's own Fourteen Points.
Wilson never responded.
The man believed in American ideals before most Americans were willing to apply them to non-white people.
In 1945, when he declared Vietnamese independence, he opened the declaration with direct quotes from the American Declaration of Independence.
He reached out to the United States for support.
The OSS, the precursor to the CIA, had officers working alongside the Việt Minh against the Japanese. They liked Hồ Chí Minh. Their field reports described him as a nationalist first.
But Washington made a choice.
France was a European ally that needed to be kept stable for NATO.
So America funded France's attempt to re-colonize Vietnam.
Eighty percent of the cost of the French Indochina War was paid by U.S. taxpayers.
The CIA was operating in Vietnam before most Americans had ever heard of the place. Edward Lansdale was running psychological operations and building paramilitary networks in the early 1950s.
The Phoenix Program, which systematically tortured and assassinated tens of thousands of Vietnamese civilians, was a CIA operation.
So when you say Hồ Chí Minh started it with outside help, you are describing America's role more accurately than his.
"You should be grateful your enemies were Americans."
This is the single most revealing sentence in your reply. Genuinely. Frame it out and look at it.
You are telling the Vietnamese people to be grateful for how they were destroyed.
Grateful for 3 million dead.
Grateful for Agent Orange that is still producing disabled children in 2026.
Grateful for Mỹ Lai.
Grateful for the bombing of hospitals.
Grateful for the embargo that strangled reconstruction for nineteen years after the war ended.
Because it could have been worse.
This is the logic of the abuser who says "you should be grateful I didn't hit you harder."
No. We are not grateful.
We won.
Gratitude goes in the other direction.
If anyone should be reflecting quietly on how things went, it is not the Vietnamese.
You said "don't start a war with Americans."
We didn't start anything.
We were a colonized people who wanted our country back.
First from the French, who had occupied us for nearly a century.
Then from the Americans, who funded the French, then replaced them when the French lost.
We didn't come to America. America came to us.
We didn't choose this. We chose to survive it.
And we did.
That's not a threat. That's not aggression. That's just history.
History that already happened.
History that ended one way and not the other.
You can look up which way on April 30, 1975.
Just to be clear, Tucker Carlson has:
- repeatedly advocated for the racist Great Replacement Theory
- called Middle Eastern people “semi literate primitive monkeys”
- said it’s ok for 27-year-olds to marry 16-year-olds
- framed trans people as inherently violent
- laundered the reputations of accused rapist Andrew Tate, Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes, and Vladimir Putin
- said that immigrants make the US “poorer and dirtier”
- was literally FIRED from Fox News for being too racist
So…no. You don’t “have to hand it to him.” For literally any reason.
Contrary to popular belief, the guy who’s been a dangerous white nationalist for 30 years isn’t going to magically stop being a dangerous white nationalist just because he claims to agree with you about one specific thing. It just means youre dumb enough to fall for his con.
You did this. Your propaganda helped convince the people with the most wealth in this country that they are somehow the real victims.
The truth is that anti white discrimination doesn’t exist & American chattel slaves & their descendants are the most oppressed group in this country.
But of course whites don’t know enough about this oppressive history to understand it because you’ve cast any honest retelling of history as critical race theory.
So these ignorant, crying white men are your ideological children.
You should be ashamed of yourself & how your work further infantilized these grown men.
They will look you dead in the face and say J6 rioters with guns, poles, bats, etc were patriots, but an ER Nurse with a camera and a registered firearm was a domestic terrorist.
You google a few daycare addresses and shove a camera in their faces... and the Trump admin freezes childcare subsidies in all 50 states.
You point out ties between Epstein, banks, and billionaires... and the Trump admin obfuscates, obstructs, and redacts all important details.